Century-old `Enemy` Still Fresh

March 22, 1985|New York Times

NEW YORK — There probably is something new under the sun, but it`s hard to know what it could be. Take the plot of the play coming to the Roundabout Theater Wednesday.

It`s about a small-town doctor who discovers that his town`s famous spa, the community`s major source of income, has dangerously polluted the water supply. Should he make his findings public or should he remain silent? Sounds like a current problem and a current play. In fact, it was written 103 years ago -- it`s Ibsen`s An Enemy of the People. Roy Dotrice will star and Frank Hauser will direct.

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It has been almost half a century since Very Warm for May by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein was given a professional production in New York, but as of now, it and such hit songs as All the Things You Are can be seen and heard again. The Equity Library Theater`s production of the musical is at 103rd Street and Riverside Drive.

Another Kern musical, Leave It to Jane, opened the New Amsterdam Theater Company`s season March 10.

This concert production features the original orchestrations, a 22-piece orchestra and a 16-voice chorus. Judy Kaye, Lara Teeter, Louis Edmonds and Jeanne Leahman are in the cast. The performances will take place at Town Hall, 123 W. 43rd St.